The Production Control Manager ensures seamless coordination between supply chain activities, material procurement, and production schedules to meet customer demands, quality standards, and delivery timelines.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
Production Planning and Scheduling
- Develop and maintain production schedules to align with customer demand, inventory levels, and capacity constraints.
- Work closely with manufacturing, engineering, and quality teams to optimize workflow efficiency and resource allocation. Monitor work-in-progress (WIP), identify bottlenecks, and adjust schedules as necessary to ensure on-time delivery. Implement lean manufacturing and continuous improvement initiatives to enhance productivity.
Procurement and Supply Chain Management
- Manage the procurement process, ensuring the timely sourcing of raw materials, components, and subcontracted services.
- Establish and maintain strong relationships with suppliers to ensure quality, cost effectiveness, and on-time delivery.
- Collaborate with the supply chain team to negotiate contracts, monitor supplier performance, and implement risk mitigation strategies.
- Optimize inventory levels to balance cost control with production demands.
- Work closely with warehouse and logistics teams to ensure just-in-time (JIT) inventory management.
- Reduce excess stock and minimize waste through effective material flow strategies.
Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Coordinate with engineering, quality, and operations to manage new product introductions (NPI) and engineering changes.Partner with sales and customer service teams to communicate lead times, resolve production delays, and meet customer expectations.
- Lead cross-functional meetings to review production status, constraints, and action plans.
Compliance and Reporting
- Ensure adherence to aerospace industry standards (AS9100, ISO 9001, ITAR, FAA regulations, etc.).
- Develop and track key performance indicators (KPIs) for production efficiency, procurement cost savings, and inventory turnover.
- Prepare reports and present them to senior leadership
- Leads Planners and Buyers
- Performs other related duties as assigned
Job Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Leadership abilities
- Understanding of the details of creating real value
- Good business sense/judgment
- Critical thinking and problem solving
- Action oriented
- Strong communication skills (verbal and written)
- Open and honest communication
- Take ownership for their performance and for their team's performance
- Results oriented
- Manage and prioritize multiple programs to maximize value creation
Qualifications & Experience
- The ideal candidate will have a strong background in supply chain management, MRP/ERP systems, and lean manufacturing within an aerospace or high-precision manufacturing environment.
- College degree (technical degree preferred)
- MBA preferred
- Broad business knowledge preferred: sales, engineering, finance and operations
- Industrial experience preferred
- Management experience - direct reports
- Aerospace industry experience preferred.
Physical Demands & Work Environment
- Typical office environment, with controlled temperatures.
- May be exposed to routine noise from manufacturing plant floor.
- Must be able to push, pull, and lift at least 15 lbs., unaided.
- Must be able to sit, stand, reach, bend, and grasp equipment, tools, or inventory.
- Must be able to wear required Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) as necessary when working in areas on the manufacturing plant floor
This position requires either a US Person (as defined in applicable export regulations) or a non-US Person who is eligible to obtain the required export authorization. To conform to U.S. export control regulations, applicant should be eligible for any required authorizations from the U.S. Government.
The above information in this description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performance by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential job duty satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform essential job functions.
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HarcoSemco
Nov 11, 2026